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We have basically told these companies that the smart thing to do, the shareholder thing to do, is to lie and to break the law. Now technology is 99% about shareholder value and 1% about the betterment of humanity. The markets are failing. Source: Scott Galloway Says Amazon, Apple, Facebook, And Google should be broken […]

…find a love for identity politics…so that we can draw battle lines between those who want shame to grow on trees and those who want to overcome it. Source: Video Episode 310: Live from the New York Comedy Festival 2018 @58:30 | Harmontown Insightful monologue on shame and vulnerability starting @51:00. Shame is not a […]

Along with phrases appropriated directly from the so-called alt-right, a small group of neotraditionalist educators have invented the concept of ‘school shaming’ to make their reactionary politics seem, well, less reactionary. Criticize a school for how it treats students, and you’re ‘school shaming’. Talk about structural racism and curriculum, and you’re playing ‘identity politics’. Oppose […]

“Any authority within the space must be aimed at fostering agency in all the members of the community. And this depends on a recognition of the power dynamics and hierarchies that this kind of learning environment must actively and continuously work against. There is no place for shame in the work of education.” Source: Dear […]

Most cyborgs are disabled people who interface with technology. We depend on a computer for some major bodily function. The tryborg – a word I invented – is a nondisabled person who has no fundamental interface. The tryborg is a counterfeit cyborg. The tryborg tries to integrate with technology through the latest product or innovation. […]

A great example of how to check that you are accommodating diverse learners was shared in the Panel at the end of the conference: Walk through your learning environment as different personas (think different ethnicities, students in wheelchairs, someone with ASD etc.) and see how inclusive it is. Do the spaces allow for you to […]

The irony of turning schools into therapeutic institutions when they generate so much stress and anxiety seems lost on policy-makers who express concern about children’s mental health. Source: ClassDojo app takes mindfulness to scale in public education | code acts in education